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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61813	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1682 by N. Stratford ...	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1683 (1683)	Wing S5940; ESTC R33812	12,795	36

and by wicked hands was crucified and slain And that he might exactly answer those Sacrifices under the Law by which his was most eminently prefigur'd he not only pour'd out his Soul unto Death but he also suffer'd without the gate of the City like as the Heb. xiv 11 12. bodies of those Beasts whose blood was brought by the High Priest into the Sanctuary were burnt without the Camp Thus he freely gave himself an Offering and a Sacrifice to God And that he gave himself for us to make expiation for our Guilts we are as infallibly assur'd by the word of Truth which expresly affirms That he was delivered for Our offences that Rom. iv 25. he was wounded for our Transgressions was bruised Isa liii 5. for our Iniquities that the chastisement of our Peace was upon him that by his stripes we might be healed That he hath redeemed us from the Galat. iii. 13. curse of the Law being made a Curse for us That we have Redemption through his blood the Eph. i. 7. forgiveness of sins In which words we have not only the persons for whom he dyed but one blessed fruit of his meritorious Sacrifice in all those who truly repent and turn from their Iniquities viz. the forgiveness of sins For if the blood of Bulls and Heb. ix 13 14. of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctified to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offer'd himself without spot to God purge our Consciences from dead works This I say is one fruit of his Sacrifice for this is not all He bare our sins in his own 1 Pet. ii 24. body upon the Tree to the end that we being dead unto Sin might live unto God He therefore died for our Sins that we might die to them Our deliverance from the Punishment of sin was design'd by God in order to our deliverance from the Power of it that sin might no longer reign in our mortal Body that we should obey it in the Lusts thereof but that being made free from sin we might become the Servants of Righteousness This was that which God principally aimed at and at the other only as a Motive to it Which brings me to the last thing observable in the words V. That God by sending his own Son into the World in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a Sacrifice for sin hath taken the most effectual course for the Destruction of sin in us For the purifying of our Hearts and reforming our Lives that we may not live the rest of our time in the flesh to the Lusts of Men but to the Will of God When the highest Attainments of the Heathen Moralists were to this purpose so unavailable that their own Precepts were a constant reproach to their Practise When the Law of Moses was so weak and unprofitable that the precise Pharisee notwithstanding his Zeal for the observance of it was as great a slave to the sins of the Spirit as the prophane Publican was to those of the Flesh When all those Purgatives of Humane Nature which the wisest men both of the Jewish and Gentile World did most admire and applaud were of so little force to the end for which they were prescribed that the whole World was overgrown with wickedness For the Mortification of sin when all other ways proved so ineffectual that it daily improv'd under them God at length sent his only Son into the World to die upon a Cross for it Which however it is to the Jews a stumbling block and was at the first to the Greeks foolishness Yet to them that are call'd who heartily believe it both Jews and Greeks 't is the Power of God and the wisdom of God The Power of God unto Salvation unto that great Salvation which God primarily design'd for us the saving us from sin The wisdom of God It being incomparably above all other the most advantagious course that the wisdom of God ever contriv'd for the abolishing of it Both as it affords the most powerful Motives to quicken our endeavours to it and as it gives us the most powerful Assistance by which we may be enabled to effect it It affords the most powerful Motives to excite our endeavours to it 1. As it is a most palpable demonstration of God's infinite Abhorrency of sin of his implacable VVrath and inexorable severity against it and of that intolerable Damnation that all those will unavoidably incur who shall notwithstanding persevere in the practise of it God had before taught Mankind by many sensible Experiments that sin was an evil and a bitter thing But never was his wrath so dreadfully reveal'd from Heaven against it as in delivering up his own Son to be an expiatory Sacrifice for it The Destruction of a VVorld at once eight persons only excepted was in comparison but a slight expression of his vengeance For by how much more valuable the single Life of his beloved Son was than that of the whole VVorld of Sinners by so much the more in his Death did the Indignation of God against sin appear The destroying of Sodom and Gomorrah by a Fire as strange as their Lusts what was it to the flaming out of his wrath against him who was as dear to him as himself For the greater the Love of God was to him so much the more was his Hatred of sin thereby declared Should we ascend as high as Heaven or descend as low as Hell neither the Angels thrown down from above nor the dismal Groans of the Souls beneath can so loudly proclaim God's detestation of sin as the strong cryes and tears the bloody sweat and agony of his Son did No Parallel can be found for it no Example that falls not as far below it as the Creature below the Creator And since God was so severe in his Inflictions upon his only Son can we imagine that he will spare us if in contempt and defiance of his Justice we shall still harden our selves in Rebellion against him If he so dreadfully vindicated the Honour and Authority of his Laws on him who had never transgress'd the least of them Himself but out of his immense Charity only interpos'd for those that had Can any man be so sottish as to flatter himself with hopes of Impunity in case he still continues in the wilful Violation of them For tho 't is true Christ gave himself a Ransom for all men the most daring sinner in the World not excepted Yet 't was upon condition only of their sincere Repentance that they were to receive the benefits of his Ransom None shall ever be made Partakers of the Blessed Fruits of his Cross the Pardon of their sins and Reconciliation with God who do not themselves crucifie the flesh with its affections and lusts For those who still cherish them and make Provision for them nothing remains but a certain fearful looking for